Sullivan fight of the week Sullivan Burke

Lets see what this amazing Slavin did to Mitchell compared to Sullivan

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88964913?searchTerm=charlie+mitchell+frank+slavin

 

I get what you're saying, but the fighters of the 1890's in Fitz, Corbett, Maher, and company I think beat Sullivan's competition ( 1880's ) in many cases more comfortably than he did.

Taking Sullivan out of the picture, was there anyone heads and shoulders above the pack that he fought?

 

Yeah I was being facetious, though he also turned up drunk against Jim Hall and got KOed (I don't think it was actually a fix). I'm just searching because Mitchell and Slavin fought no decisions, so I was interested to see what happened, so far this is the only one I found.

 

The funny thing is after that ****show they seem to have been pretty close friends, Mitchell was even training Slavin.

 

The crux of it as I see it is we don't now how good much of Sullivan's opposition was.
I'm not in either camp here, but by the time Sullivan was touring Australia he was to all intents and purposes retired. Slavin and Jackson came along when he was essentially an inactive dissipated drunk.

 

He was an inactive, dissipated drunk from 84 on .. this is a fact .. read Isenberg about his horrid cross country tour .. it was a disaster .. he essentially had a short window of fitness between 82 - early 83 .. the rest is a press driven myth that's only rival is J. Dempsey .. where do you rate his opposition ?

 

This is interesting
https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=rocklandctyjournal18910502.2.79&txq=frank+slavin

 

I find it impossible to rate most of it.

 

And why do you find it impossible to rate it ? You're a long term poster on this forum with a ton of experience and overall knowledge ..

 

Or maybe Corbett?

 

For anyone wonding this is why I just act like a ****head to Mendoza.

He knows Sullivan was injured early in this fight.

He's been told it, it's in reports, it's on boxrec. He's even acknowledged it.

Yet he still ignores it.

When it's brought up he makes the flimsy justication that Sullivan was a right handed fighter anyway, as if loosing use of your bad arm still isn't a massive disadvantage, and if nothing else the pain etc. would make it harder to fight. Who has ever fought at close to their best with a broken arm? Who?